As people have said, GC3 is not better than Aransu9....
.....especially if you have a slow attacking class and have bad RNG with stacks, your DPS will be underwhelming compared to A9. Sucks for me as a fire KFM.
Not sure if I'm willing to switch to wind to compensate for this. Might have to think about that...
...and if you plan to go GC path, be sure to accumulate enough celestial steel to make the jump straight to GC6-9 after the upgrade....

As we've said before, and will continue to say it again--trove is strictly RNG. Some will never see a 3-star crit. I haven't seen one in my life until now.
I opened 700 keys and got two 3 star crits. Next 100 keys I got another and a 10-oil crit. This trove has treated me the best so far actually. ^_^.

Been making fine tunes/adjustments on my appearance since day 1 of BnS's launch in the west back in 2016! Wanted to make my characters appear physically like me a bit and facially as well. But it stayed relatively the same over the last 2 years.
Since I only use one character on BNS, I switch intermittently between a Gon and Jin. I'm currently using my Jin. I also have pre-sets made for a female Gon, Female Yun and Male Gon.

Don't get your hopes up TOO soon--it's going to be extremely expensive both gold and possibly cash wise...depending on the types of materials needed for it. If it's like clan outfitting, then yes it'll be extremely expensive.
However, I am pleased to know you can do this in this game =). A very positive step indeed..

Trove is not pay to win. There is nothing in trove that you can't obtain in the game through farming and grinding--other than outfits specifically from trove. But even most of those end up in F10 eventually for a limited time. And you can even buy some from F5 now.
Worst and greedy? You haven't played other MMO's out there that ARE pay 2 win; that require literally thousands of dollars for one item that you can't obtain in the game--only through their RNG boxes. Before I quit a certain MMO, someone dropped around $10,000 USD to get one item from the RNG packs and STILL didn't obtain what he wanted. That was for ONE piece of UNREFINED gear--which cost around another $500-1,000USD to refine. Some people have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on their characters in that MMO.

My friend that lives in SG had the same problem...and there's nothing support can do. He's tried...
They can just suggest that you move to a closer region to play...but the ping issues will not subside with support. They can't move their HQ from TX [USA] and magically cater to a minority playing on US servers.
Either you can try to stay with the ping and settle with it, or move to another region that might cater to you better...

Linxxy (Bethany) already stated they will NOT be releasing the transcendence and QuickDraw outfits [respectively] as these were meant to be exclusive to the master's pack pre-order.
A re-color MIGHT be considered however.